decorativeness

• “The candy was of an inexpensive variety – Patty had discovered the ten-cent store – but the boxes that contained it made up in decorativeness what the candy lacked; they were sprinkled with Cupids and roses in vivid profusion.”

  Just Patty

• “In summer uniforms of white linen with gold shoulder-straps, and shining top-boots, they rivalled the donkey-man in decorativeness.”

  Jerry Junior

• “A first glance at her work reveals a kind of obsessive decorativeness that is somewhat abject, innocent and childish A second glance deciphers a sober social and self criticism and a humor that chooses to hide inside a shell of weakness.”

  Artists: Israeli, 1970 to the Present.

• “It seemed a sorry attempt at visual overloading in order to draw attention away from the mind-numblingly decorativeness of the actual art.”

  Buzzine » Murakami at MOCA

• “I'm pretty agnostic about leggings, but the whole discussion which centered on the fact that it can be *really* hard to look good in leggings got me thinking about the pervasive idea that women owe it to onlookers to maintain a certain standard of decorativeness.”

  October 2006

• “Arabic decorativeness in tinted stucco is the palace begun by”

  Familiar Spanish Travels

• “In much of his later work there is a marked change from his earlier elaborate decorativeness to a style of vigorous strength.”

  A History of English Literature

• “There are a few rules with regard to the costuming of woman which if understood put one a long way on the road toward that desirable goal -- decorativeness, and have economic value as well.”

  Woman as Decoration

• “You will by this means increase your decorativeness, and what is of more serious importance, your economic value.”

  Woman as Decoration

• “Rules having economic value while aiming at decorativeness.”

  Woman as Decoration

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